Recruitment, leadership development, and career transition are simultaneously simple and complex. Simple because of the process: we hire, teach new skills, provide opportunities for development, and transition individuals to a new career. But complex because of the subjects with whom we work. Human beings are not simple machines that think, but complex and emotional creatures with a spectrum of personal preferences and motivations.

To make good decisions about your talent, you must start with understanding who they are. While many organizations rely on the good intentioned, but unavoidably biased opinions of managers and supervisors to identify and develop their talent, we know that process often leads to mistakes and wasted resources.

Assessment is key, but not any assessment will do. At Optimum Talent, we use SuccessFinder because it provides an unbiased, high definition picture of an individual’s competencies, preferences, motivators, and potential. We believe it’s the best tool for making smart talent decisions across the employee lifecycle, from recruiting to development, to performance and succession. The result is a complete profile that is void of human bias.

Assessment

Recruitment, leadership development, and career transition are simultaneously simple and complex. Simple because of the process: we hire, teach new skills, provide opportunities for development, and transition individuals to a new career. But complex because of the subjects with whom we work. Human beings are not simple machines that think, but complex and emotional creatures with a spectrum of personal preferences and motivations.

To make good decisions about your talent, you must start with understanding who they are. While many organizations rely on the good intentioned, but unavoidably biased opinions of managers and supervisors to identify and develop their talent, we know that process often leads to mistakes and wasted resources.

Assessment is key, but not any assessment will do. At Optimum Talent, we use SuccessFinder because it provides an unbiased, high definition picture of an individual’s competencies, preferences, motivators, and potential. We believe it’s the best tool for making smart talent decisions across the employee lifecycle, from recruiting to development, to performance and succession. The result is a complete profile that is void of human bias.

Using The SuccessFinder Assessment We Can:

Identify talent gaps

Select and hire the right new talent

Onboard new employees more effectively

Create a culture of engagement and performance

Identify HIPOs within your organization

Facilitate succession management

Select/promote the best leadership

Predict career success in a particular role

Align teams to a mandate

Structure better employee development initiatives

Design effective coaching programs

Assist with outplacement career discussions

Our Approach

Participants complete a cloud-based assessment available 24/7.

SuccessFinder generates a high-definition profile report.

Participants are debriefed by a certified Optimum Talent consultant.

(Not available for every assessment.)

Organizations can receive a report with aggregated data.

(Not available for every assessment.)

The Science Of SuccessFinder

SuccessFinder uses four decades of research and development to predict career satisfaction and success based on two discriminating factors: human behaviours and competencies.

Behaviours and competencies are the key differentiators in performance. High performers share a common subset of behaviors and competencies that they are extremely adept at using. SuccessFinder compares an individual’s personal profile with thousands of high-performing profiles to predict success in a role with 85% or higher accuracy.

It’s also the only career assessment to measure 85 statistically distinct behavioural scales (few other tests measure more than 30), and 35 specific career themes (few other measure more than 10) – all of which interface with 1,500 occupational titles (few measure more than 200) and 500+ career success benchmarks.

An Assessment For Entry Level to C-Suite

Unlike other assessment tools, SuccessFinder can be used for individuals at all levels of an organization.

Because of its comprehensive approach to behavioural assessment, SuccessFinder is just as effective in determining the potential success rate of a newly hired CEO as it is for an entry-level employee.

This allows your organization to remain consistent across geographies, employees, and levels of your organization by offering a single, effective solution that can be used as the foundation for decisions regarding your talents’ advancement, development, and potential.

Why Choose Optimum Talent?

We Listen. We start every engagement by listening. We take the time to understand your needs and identify the best internal resources to support your team.

We Communicate. From the very beginning, you’ll know where we are on your engagement because we’ll regularly update you on our progress. We’re transparent about our approach.

We Respect Your Brand. We know how hard you’ve worked to build your reputation and how hard we’ve worked to build our own. You can trust us to treat every member of your organization with respect. We can be trusted to act with integrity.

We Believe in Partnership. Working with us is easy. Our flexible service and coast-to-coast coverage makes implementation and customer service convenient and efficient.